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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| "Spare no expense to save money on this one." -- Samuel Goldwyn | |
| All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. -- Samuel Beckett | |
| It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one day like any other day, only shorter. -- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies" | |
| So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots. -- Samuel Foote | |
| Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever. -- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame" | |
| Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler | |
| The course of true anything never does run smooth. -- Samuel Butler | |
| The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of space and time. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of a circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity. -- Samuel F. B. Morse | |
| "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on." - Samuel Goldwyn | |
| If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. -- Samuel Adams | |
| Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- S. Johnson, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by J. Boswell In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform. -- Sen. Roscoe Conkling Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose | |
| Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. -- Samuel Butler | |
| If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive! -- Samuel Goldwyn | |
| Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero ... must drink brandy. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary. -- Samuel Clemens | |
| Round Numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only Here's the rub, my darling dear I feel the same when you are near. -- Samuel Hoffenstein, "When You're Away" | |
| A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Include me out. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| I'll give you a definite maybe. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| If Roosevelt were alive, he'd turn over in his grave. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive! -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them five years. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| It's more than magnificent-it's mediocre. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| Our comedies are not to be laughed at. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| Referring to a book: I read part of it all the way through. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| Talking about a piece of movie dialogue: Let's have some new cliches. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| We're overpaying him, but he's worth it. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| I never liked you, and I always will. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. -Samuel Goldwyn | |
| A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. -- Samuel Butler | |
| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, "Notebooks" | |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler | |
| He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) | |
| Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. -- Samuel Butler | |
| We are all born mad. Some remain so. -- Samuel Beckett | |
| When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and despair -- these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the Infinite, so long you are young. -- Samuel Ullman | |
| The major sin is the sin of being born. -- Samuel Beckett | |
| A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -- Samuel Goldwyn | |
| It is better to live rich than to die rich. -- Samuel Johnson | |
| Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -- Samuel Goldwyn | |
